Tony Tremblay

1962-

Michael Anthony (Tony) Tremblay was born in 1962, the son of Daniel and Eileen (Theriault) Tremblay. He grew up near Dalhousie, New Brunswick. He worked at the local AbitibiBowater paper mill to put himself through university (he was the fourth generation in his family to work at the mill.  His great-grandfather immigrated from the Ukraine and helped build it). Tremblay earned his BA from St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, his MA (1986) from University of Victoria in British Columbia, and his PhD (1995) at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. He joined the Department of English Language and Literature at St. Thomas University in Fredericton in 1996. From 2007-2017, he held the Canada Research Chair in New Brunswick Studies at that university. Tremblay published widely in the fields of Canadian literature, literary modernism, and cultural and media studies. He developed thirteen courses on Maritime literature, Canadian poetry, and New Brunswick literature, film, and art, and was nominated for teaching awards multiple times. His scholarship has earned over thirty nominations, awards, and grants, including a nomination for the Gabrielle Roy Prize for the Best Book in Canadian Criticism, a short-list for a Canada Prize in the Humanities, and a Merit Award for Research at STU. He has published hundreds of book chapters, articles, essays, interviews, and reviews, and he has been an invited speaker at many conferences. He is founding editor of the multidisciplinary Journal of New Brunswick Studies/Revue d’études sur le Nouveau-Brunswick and general editor of the New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia. His work includes Exploring the Dimensions of Self-Sufficiency for New Brunswick (2009), David Adams Richards of the Miramichi (2010), Fred Cogswell: The Many-Dimensioned Self (2012), New Brunswick at the Crossroads: Literary Ferment and Social Change in the East (2017), and The Fiddlehead Moment: Pioneering an Alternative Canadian Modernism in New Brunswick (2019). He wrote, directed, and co-produced the documentary film Last Shift: The Story of a Mill Town (2011) about the closing of the paper mill in his hometown of Dalhousie, NB. Tremblay was awarded the rank of Professor Emeritus by St. Thomas University in 2023.  He has had entries published in the Bibliography of New Brunswick Bibliographies & Accompanying Essays, The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature, and the Literary Atlas of Atlantic Canada/Atlas littéraire du Canada atlantique, among others, and has published in many journals, including The Fiddlehead, The Dalhousie Review, The Nashwaak Review and The Antigonish Review. He has also written articles for newspapers, including the Daily Gleaner, The New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal and The Globe and Mail. Tremblay is married to Ellen Rose, a member of the Faculty of Education at the University of New Brunswick.

Predominant New Brunswick Residences:

Dalhousie, Fredericton

Archival Material

• Tony Tremblay fonds
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  Location

  University of New Brunswick Archives & Special Collections

  Retrieval Number

  2022.039 and 2023.007

  Date Range of Material

  1990-2021

  Extent

  6.8 m of textual records and other materials

  Scope and Content Note

  Unprocessed accession consists of documents created by Tony Tremblay that reflect his career as an academic. Includes project documents, correspondence, drafts of his publications, research material, conference papers, documentary film materials, and taped interviews with authors. Includes the records of the Journal of New Brunswick Studies and the New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia.